There are many Little House on the Prairie characters, appearing in various forms of media in the Little House on the Prairie media franchise.

Television series characters

The Ingalls family

The in-laws

Townsfolk

One-shot characters

Season one

Season two

Season three

Season four

Season five

Season six

Season seven

Season eight

Season nine

Post-series movies

Animals

Ingalls' and Wilder's genealogy

The Ingalls family

Based on the data from : The Genealogy of Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder NOTE: A second daughter of Ruby Ingalls Card, Lettie Letishia Card Anderson, is listed as being born in 1888, seven years after Ruby's death. How this is possible is unknown.

The Quiner family

(Laura's maternal great-great-grandparents) Allan Alexander Morse and Margaret Drummond *These are fictional names. Real names unknown. (Laura's maternal great-grandparents) Lewis Tucker (1779–1870) and Martha Gráinne Morse (1772–1862) William Quiner (1773–1831) and Margaret Doer (1774–1839) (Laura's maternal grandparents) Charlotte Tucker and Henry Quiner ''Henry Quiner died in October 1844 in the sinking of a trading ship on the Great Lakes. Charlotte Tucker Quiner remarried, to Frederic Holbrook, and they had one child''

Charlotte Tucker

Charlotte Wallis Tucker was born on May 25, 1809, in Roxbury, Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston). She died September 20, 1884, in Rome, Wisconsin. Her mostly fictionalised story was described in the four-book series The Charlotte Years by Melissa Wiley. Charlotte was maternal grandmother to Laura Ingalls Wilder. As a young woman, Charlotte married Henry Newton Quiner from Connecticut. She was the first woman in her family to travel west, living in Ohio and Indiana before settling in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.

Martha Morse

Martha Morse was born on January 2, 1782, in Scotland, where her father was a wealthy landowners in the Scottish Highlands. Her mostly fictionalised story was told in the four-book series The Martha Years, by Melissa Wiley. Martha was Charlotte Tucker's mother and great-grandmother to Laura Ingalls Wilder. Martha married Lewis Tucker, a blacksmith's son. Lewis and Martha travelled to the United States and began their new life near Boston, Massachusetts, becoming the first of Laura's ancestors to immigrate to America.

The Wilder family

The Day family

Neighbors, friends and acquaintances

Real people

Characters based on real people